Notebook "'Beware of first- hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand,...See more

Urban tale: Learned today. If you yell the following at the top of your lungs: "don't look at me motherfucking punk ass bitch or I'm going to take this lighter and set your motherfucking head on fire till it's all burned up and shit, and then when you get out your faggot fire...See more

One of those memory things from last year... still the case: I don't care who wins the sports, I don't care who wins the awards, and I don't even care all that much who wins the politics. I'm missing that vicarious competition "gene" that makes people feel other people's wins as personal triumphs and losses as personal tragedies: I can fake it, but in reality it's just not there. I realize this makes me quite peculiar, but it's only one of many such things I expect.